Tag: Middle East

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint news conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry following his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Sunday, June 22, 2014, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

John Kerry: Insurgency in Iraq threatens entire Mideast

Lara Jakes · June 22, 2014 6:15 pm

President Barack Obama speaks about the situation in Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Obama said the US will send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq, set up joint operation centers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama: Threat from Iraq militants could grow

Washington Examiner · June 22, 2014 2:21 pm

This photo taken Saturday, June 21, 2014, shows demonstrators protesting outside of the White House in Washington against renewed U.S. involvement in Iraq. In charting a new phase of American military engagement in Iraq on Thursday, President Barack Obama pledged that his war-weary country will not be "dragged back" into a lengthy conflict or become ensnarled in "mission creep." But recent U.S. military history is full of warning signs about the difficulty of keeping even a limited mission from expanding and extending. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Obama’s test: Try to avoid ‘mission creep’ in Iraq

Julie Pace · June 22, 2014 1:44 pm

Lebanese police intelligence gather outside a hotel after security forces raided there in Beirut's Hamra district, Lebanon, Friday, June 20, 2014. Security forces raided the hotel over suspected "terrorist cells" inside it, a police official said. In eastern Lebanon, a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle Friday near a police checkpoint, killing a few people amid heightened concerns of renewed violence, the country's state-run news agency and security officials said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

UAE issues travel warning for Lebanon

Washington Examiner · June 22, 2014 11:31 am

A Palestinian woman cries in her home after a raid by Israeli troops as the army continues feverish searches for three missing Israeli teens, in Salim village near the West Bank city of Nablus, Sunday, June 22,2014. Israel's military says troops have shot dead one Palestinian, and a Palestinian medical official says another was killed, as the army searches for three missing teens and looks to dismantle the Islamic militant group Hamas. Over the past week, thousands of Israeli troops have searched hundreds of locations in the West Bank and arrested more than 300 Palestinians, many from Hamas. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

2 Palestinians killed as Israel raids West Bank

Mohammed Daraghmeh · June 22, 2014 10:35 am

Volunteers of the newly formed "Peace Brigades" participate in a parade in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 21, 2014. The armed group was formed after radical Shiite cleric Muqtatda al-Sadr called to form brigades to protect Shiite holy shrines against possible attacks by Sunni militants. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Sunni fighters expand offensive in western Iraq

HAMZA HENDAWISAMEER N. YACOUB · June 21, 2014 10:35 pm

FILE - In this May 1, 2006, file photo, then-Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., left, speaks with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, after he gave a speech proposing that Iraq be divided into three separate regions during the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia conference in Philadelphia. As Iraq edges toward chaos, Vice President Joe Biden is having a quiet I-told-you-so moment. As a senator in 2006, Biden proposed that Iraq be divided into three semi-independent regions for Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. And he said that his plan would allow U.S. troops to be out by early 2008. Otherwise, he warned, Iraq could fall into sectarian conflict that could destabilize the region. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Iraq crisis offers hint of vindication for Biden

Josh Lederman · June 21, 2014 5:08 pm

The Return of the Bad Old Days

Irwin M. Stelzer · June 21, 2014 3:00 am

Lebanese police intelligence gather outside a hotel after security forces raided there in Beirut's Hamra district, Lebanon, Friday, June 20, 2014. Security forces raided the hotel over suspected "terrorist cells" inside it, a police official said. In eastern Lebanon, a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle Friday near a police checkpoint, killing a few people amid heightened concerns of renewed violence, the country's state-run news agency and security officials said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Bombing, arrests spark fear in Lebanon

Zeina Karam · June 20, 2014 8:55 pm

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Beltway Confidential

Naming the Islamist militants in the news: ISIS or ISIL?

Charles Hoskinson · June 20, 2014 7:51 pm

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Has American fracking doomed Iraq?

Arthur Herman · June 20, 2014 6:47 pm

Israeli soldiers walk downstairs in a building as they search for three missing Israeli teens in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, June 20, 2014. The three Jewish seminary students disappeared June 12 while hitchhiking in the West Bank. Israel has blamed the Islamic militant Hamas group for the apparent abduction, but has offered no proof. Hamas has praised the abduction of the teenagers but has not claimed responsibility for it. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli troops kill Palestinian in arrest raids

Mohammed Daraghmeh · June 20, 2014 6:11 pm